Story+2009-11-18+Nashville,+TN

“Good evening, Nashville (crowd cheers)…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, intro to “Wrecking Ball”**

“Alright, Sister…yes, yes, yes…I like those hats, those hats are good…you the man (?)…alright, good evening...oh Nashville…oh, oh, oh, Tennessee (crowd cheers) alright, we’re so glad to be here in the beautiful Music City tonight (crowd cheers) now the E Street Band has come thousands of miles to fulfil their solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) but we didn’t come all this way, after all this time, to just rock the house, we come here because we wanna build a house right here in Nashville tonight (crowd cheers) we wanna build a house out of music and hope and love and Tennessee soul (crowd cheers) out of spirit and out of noise…now, ladies and gentlemen, the mighty E Street Band is here tonight and we are going to bring down the power of the music on you…but, Tennessee, we…need…you…to… bring…the…noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, middle of “Working on a Dream”**

“Good evening, good evening (crowd cheers) welcome, welcome, welcome and thank you for coming out tonight…oh…this is, uh…we got three shows left counting tonight…we’ve been, uh, on tour for good part of a couple of years, I think, with the “Magic”-record and “Working on a Dream” and I wanna thank you all for supporting all our new music and our shows (?)(crowd cheers) as we got towards, towards the end of the tour we were trying to think of something we could do that would be fun for the band and hopefully enjoyable for our fans and so we’ve been playing our, our albums straight through (crowd cheers) we’ve played “Darkness,” played “Born in the U.S.A,” we played “The Wild and the Innocent,” played “The River” and tonight…this was, uh, this was an important record for us, we were, I had a three-record contract and I’d already had two records that came out and stiffed and so, uh, this was our last shot and, uh….this was a record where I sort of, we started a lifelong conversation I’ve been having with a lot of you folks out there (crowd cheers) uh…this was also, uh, this was my young man’s music so this is for all you new, new fans out there too (crowd cheers) so tonight…Nashville, Tennessee…shout if you know it (starts the harmonica intro) (crowd cheers)…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, intro to “Thunder Road”**

“Until the end…till the end…just me and you, baby…just me and you, darling…(sings wordlessly)…come a little bit closer…come a little bit closer…till the end…until the end…until the end…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, middle of “Backstreets”**

“These are the guys that made the record (crowd cheers) along with Phantom Dan Federici (crowd cheers)…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, after “Jungleland”**

“I think I hear him, Steve…I think I can see him…on the outskirts of Nashville (crowd cheers) with a big cowboy hat on… (…) Merry Christmas, everybody (crowd cheers)…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, middle of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town”**

“[There was about six girls up front with pink cowboy hats on, one of the hats ended up on Bruce’s head, then on Steve’s head] You look good, Brother… (…)[The girls end up dancing on stage]…The Darlington cowgirls, there they are, there they are…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, middle of “Darlington County”**

“I think I better call an audible…Stevie, you can look but you better not touch…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, intro to “You Can Look”**

“Yes, yes…thank you, Nashville (crowd cheers)…(?)…alright, we got some friends tonight in the hall from the Second Harvest Foodbank of Middle Tennessee…Second Harvest Foodbank serves the hungry in 46 Middle and Western Tennessee counties, last year alone they distributed more than 40 million pounds to struggling citizens here in Tennessee, if you pick up the newspapers, you’ll see that the demand of the foodbanks has gone up, up, up as the economy’s gotten worse and worse, people have lost their jobs and the unemployment rate has gone higher and higher, grassroots organizations like the Second Harvest Foodbank of Middle Tennessee are very often all that stands in-between kids going to bed at night hungry or with something in their stomachs…please if you get a chance, you can see them on the way out, support your local foodbank, the Second Harvest Foodbank of Middle Tennessee (crowd cheers) alright, we’ll try something here just for Nashville (crowd cheers) we’ve never played it before (crowd cheers) Curt…I don’t know if you know this…(?)…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, intro to “Ring of Fire”**

“Thank you, Nashville, for coming out tonight (crowd cheers)… (…) Steve Van Zandt (crowd cheers) Curt Ramm (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) the Mighty, Mighty Max Weinberg (crowd cheers) the professorial Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) saxophonist… libertine…man of letters…he’s bigger than Shakespeare…the biggest author you’ve ever seen, Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Nashville! (crowd cheers) Nashville! (crowd cheers) Nashville! (crowd cheers) Nashville! (crowd cheers) Nashville! (crowd cheers) Nashville! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the last of – for a little while - the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers)...”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, intro to “American Land”**

“Stevie!...can we take this thing higher? (crowd cheers) can we take this higher? (crowd cheers) Steven!...”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, intro to “Rosalita”**

“(?) are they out there?...oh, I’m out of tune, I’ll be right back, go ahead…are you ready to take this thing higher? (crowd cheers) can we take this thing a little bit higher? (crowd cheers) is the band ready?...are the people ready? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 18.11.09 Nashville, TN, intro to “Higher and Higher”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//